Friends, I am happy to say
A new book is heading your way!
I’ve set it in verse
If you’re not averse
To limericks, you won’t turn away.

My theme is the problem of pain,
Which is rife in this earthly domain.
On the soul’s darkest night
I decided to write.
May my labor have not been in vain!

The book’s not an autobiography
But I think that it was truly necessary
For me to know
Something of woe
So I would not write superficially.

My protagonist’s a hero of old
Whose story is most often told
When talking of pain,
For we all can gain
Wisdom if his life we behold.

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